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Topeka weather for Monday, March 6, 2017: Wind advisory in effect today

According to the National Weather Service, a cold front will push through this evening with winds becoming southwest and increasing for a time with gusts of 45 ...

EC notice to Akhilesh for abetting 'bribery'

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's wife Sadhna Yadav on Tuesday opened up on the much-reported feud in her family involving Chief Minister Akhilesh...

UP ATS corners 'terrorist' in Lucknow, encounter underway

The suspect, identified as Saifullah, is believed to be a native of Madhya Pradesh. The encounter between UP ATS and suspected terrorist in underway at Haji c...

Knesset passes law banning BDS activists from country

Israel has been feeling the effects of that boycott campaign as its anti-BDS laws at home attest, while also lobbying its allies to crack down on the BDS moveme...

Where Trump got his information that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower

The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not immediately comment on the matter. On Saturday, a spokesman for Obama said the former ...

Ireland: 'Significant quantities' of human remains found

The commission will release its final report in 2018. "The Commission is shocked by this discovery and is continuing its investigation into who was responsibl...

SF gains in NI vote as turnout highest since 1998

The results left the DUP two seats short of the 30-seat threshold required to deploy on its own a so-called petition of concern veto, something the party has u...

Currency Traders Make Panic Sales …As CBN Releases More Dollars

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to cooperate with the bank as it moves to consolidate its policies which are aimed at strengthening the naira in the days ahead. ...

Campaigners celebrate as South Lakes Safari Zoo refused licence

In 2016, 123 animals died including a West African giraffe which was euthanised a day after collapsing. A zookeeper told the inspection team they had been tol...

ISIS leader's cousin captured in Mosul

Heavy rain had transformed the barren landscape outside the north Iraqi city into a sea of mud, and cold gusts of wind lashed the families as they sank, many of...

People buried as avalanche hits Alps

The avalanche covered an area around the start of the Tichot chair lift, where skiers and snowboarders had been queuing up. A Tweet from the British travel fi...

BCCI confirms OPPO as Indian cricket team's new sponsor

According to media reports, Star India decided not to renew the contract due to the recent administrative problems within the BCCI. "The mobile manufacturing ...

Iraqi forces recapture government offices in Mosul

Men in the besieged city had been ordered to pull down their pants in the middle of the road by United States soldiers with Operation Inherent Resolve, who were...

ISIS Accused of Unleashing Chemical Weapons in Mosul

The complex should be taken on Monday, Lieutenant Colonel Abdel Amir al-Mohammadawi told the Reuters news agency. USA -backed Iraqi forces edged closer on M...

Eight injured in MP train explosion

The explosion took place in a compartment of the general coach, adjacent to the guard coach, the report quoted railway officials as saying. WR officials said, "...

Kerala: 6 minor girls raped for over two months in orphanage

The culprits used to lure the children to a shop by offering them candies and sexually assaulted them there since January this year, the report said. When confr...

Iraqi forces storm Mosul government complex, then pull back

Iraqi security forces advanced Monday towards a compound of jihadist-held government buildings and a bridgehead, on the second day of a renewed push in west Mo...

Air Ambulance of Medanta Hospital crash lands near Bangkok

A charter aircraft hired to operate as an air ambulance on Delhi-Bangkok-Delhi route crash-landed in Thailand en route to Bangkok on Sunday, killing the pil...

Pentagon: Former Guantanamo detainee killed in U.S. airstrike on Yemen

Jeff Davis. As of Monday, U.S. forces have carried out more than 40 airstrikes against the group, considered the most risky of al Qaeda's branches. Al-Silmi...

Iraqi troops retake Mosul govt offices in fresh advance

The alleged attack occurred last week in eastern Mosul , an area declared fully liberated by Iraqi forces in January. The bridges were put out of action with...

Masked man attacks NY reporter during live TV report

The man had approached Kim while he was giving a report and wrapped his arm around the reporter's shoulders as he spoke to the camera. Kim has filed a report ...

DHS chief: Agency may separate parents, children at border

He continued: "Yes I'm considering (that), in order to deter more movement along this terribly unsafe network". Kelly, meanwhile, said that the Department o...

Here's How Women's Web Sites Will Cover the Women's Strike

The ABC has come under fire after announcing it will kick all male radio and television hosts off air tomorrow to celebrate International Women's Day. This ...

House Republicans unveil Obamacare repeal plans

The new healthcare bill reportedly keeps popular elements of the Obama administration's plan - including provisions allowing children to stay on their parents...

GOP Reveals Plans To Repeal, Replace Obamacare

The legislation winds down Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, while funding Medicaid through per capita allotments. State Medicaid programs were expanded under...

YO British Backpacker Held Captive, Raped Over 2 Month Period In QLD

After the women stopped the auto, officers found a 22-year-old man hiding in a storage alcove in the back of the vehicle. It is alleged that the woman was hel...

Trump and Netanyahu discuss Iranian threat over the phone

Netanyahu, speaking during the opening of his weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, said he wants to travel to Russian Federation on Thursday to "express to Pr...

US Attorney General Sessions defends reply on Russian Federation contacts

In a letter Sessions describes as a "supplement" to his testimony, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did nothing wrong. In a letter to the Sena...

Retired policeman links Philippine leader Duterte to death squad in TV inquiry

Mr Abella called Mr Lascanas's testimony "fabricated and unacceptable". He said he did so out fear for his family's safety. Mr Lascanas said he personally hea...

Russian soldier dies in Palmyra protecting military advisors - ministry

His wife, Sofya, paid tribute to him Saturday on Vkontakte, a Russian social media website. The General Staff of the Syrian Army on Thursday said it had rec...

Osinbajo Protesters disrupt Acting President's meeting in Edo

Disclosing the acting President's itinerary, she said, "Governor Obaseki will receive His Excellency, Ag". Osinbajo gave the assurance during a stakeholders' ...

Andrew Bogut Broke His Tibia After Playing One Minute for the Cavaliers

White's knee collided with Bogut's left shin. Joe Gabriele of Cavs.com reports Bogut will undergo X-rays and further evaluation, and an update on his co...

No Surprise With RBA March Cash Rate Call

Australia's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at a record low on Tuesday as economists had expected. "From this data, we can see that the Aust...

Iraqi forces announce capture of key Mosul bridge

Recapturing the site would help Iraqi forces attack the militants in the nearby old city centre and mark a symbolic step towards restoring state authority over ...

Ben Carson Refers To Slaves As 'Immigrants'

Rebecca Scott, a University of MI law and history professor, said slavery in the United States was a "dramatically distinct form of migration", and that slave...